Tasting Notes and Characteristics:On the palate it arrives bold and smoky with a coastal salinity and sweet barley notes that soften into a long, medicinal peat finish, making each sip feel warming and precise. Octomore 16.2 is a heavily peated Islay single malt from the Bruichladdich distillery in Scotland, made from barley with intense phenol levels and matured in a mix of casks to balance the smoke with underlying fruit and oak character, and it is bottled at an ABV of 0.595. Enjoy it alongside smoked salmon to echo the briny, smoky elements or with a pungent blue cheese to play off the whisky’s sweetness and peat for a satisfying pairing.Producer Information: BruichladdichBruichladdich: distillery on Islay that champions regional identity by sourcing local barley and reflecting maritime terroir, preserving craft tradition through hand-finished copper stills, on-site floor malting and transparent provenance practices. Their portfolio spans unpeated single malt Bruichladdich, the peated Port Charlotte and the heavily peated Octomore, plus The Botanist gin, cask-strength and age-statement releases, and experimental small-batch bottlings that emphasize farm-to-bottle storytelling and artisanal whisky-making techniques.
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